The African Union is officially fed up with the 16 th -century representation of its continent that the world has accepted as the norm. The AU, which comprises 55 African nations, has set off on a ...

Organizers behind the Correct The Map campaign say the Mercator map's shrinking of Africa minimizes the continent's global ...

There are growing calls from African nations for the international community to adopt maps that accurately reflect the true ...

A campaign group is pushing to have the current world map "corrected" to show Africa is actually larger than the current Mercator projection.

Analysis - The African Union has endorsed the #CorrectTheMap Campaign, a call for the United Nations and the wider global ...

The African Union has backed a campaign to end the use by governments and international organisations of the 16th-century ...

The African Union has endorsed a campaign to replace traditional maps that have distorted the size of continents like Africa.